The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg megathread

[John Dule]

Bizarre news, Obama seems to think he's still in charge, LOL:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/517197-obama-calls-on-senate-not-to-fill-ginsburgs-vacancy-until-after

"Calling on" or "urging" implies that you don't have actual power over that person. For instance, I can "urge" you to stop being such a shameless embarrassment to the Right Wing and to leave this site. But ultimately, I recognize that the choice is up to you (and that you will probably choose to continue being a boring cultist).

[John Dule]

Anyone who accepts this nomination under these circumstances should not sit on any court.

[John Dule]

Congratulations to Justice Amy Coney Barrett!  Let's all pray that God will use this confirmation to end the senseless tragedy of abortion in our nation!!

I hope you cry when Biden packs the court and guarantees abortion rights nationwide.

Good luck getting the likes of Joe Manchin to go with court packing, even if the Democrats narrowly take the Senate.  And, if you somehow do, the GOP trifecta will pack it right back in 2025.

The fact that people like me-- staunch right-wingers who generally oppose Democratic policies-- are becoming so disgusted with your party of hypocrites and cheaters should be a warning sign that you've lost the next generation of Americans. There's nothing I can say to Democrats who want to pack the Supreme Court now; they're totally justified in doing so and that is entirely the fault of the GOP. In order to win your utterly pointless short-term victories, you've effectively ceded all legitimacy to the Democratic Party. I hope you're prepared for the havoc that the next ten years of changing culture and demographics will wreak on your conception of what America should be.

[John Dule]

Except, creationism is part of a specific religion(Christianity)  and requiring a teaching of that would violate the establishment clause if one believed it applied to the states with regards to the 14th amendment. If one believed that none of the 14th amendment forced the states to follow the BoR or the establishment clause, then it is valid to argue for creationism schools. However overall this decision was not an extreme overreach by the Warren court .


 However I do believe SCOTUS has gone too strictly on certain school prayer cases, as long as there was an option to meditate in a secular manner at the same time, school prayer should have been allowed as a short period of time set aside, and I say this as a person who is non-religious.

I mean that's fair, but it doesn't change the fact that both prayer and meditation are enormous wastes of time. Grades are low enough already without us taking another 15 minutes out of the day for another BS activity like this.